rub out

Definitions

1. 1

   To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser).

   • The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard.
2. 2

   To get by

   To get by; to live.

   • The first will understand but little of them, the latter over much; they might perhaps live and rub out in the middle region.
3. 3

   To kill, especially to murder.

   • It was just a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows.
   • 'Mr Grimaldi,' fills in Smoke, 'what I believe Fay has too much tact to spit out and say is this: the Rey woman might be imagining we rubbed out Dr Sixsmith.'
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   1. 4

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, out.

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